Item Description: Random House, New York, 1946. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Printing. First Printing stated on the copyright page. Signed by both Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe on the front flyleaf. The blue cloth binding is slightly age-dulled with a touch of wear at the extremities. The pages are tight and clean with no marks. Name in ink inside the front cover. No dust jacket. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # MP13-2542Z

Item Description: Musik, Musik/Jazz. Random House, New York 1946. 8°. 1st edition. 388 pp. Orig. blue cloth w/white stamped spine and side. Mark after book plate on the inner side. Almost near fine. Signed by »Mezz« and his co-writer Wolfe on the fly-leaf. * The biography of the famous American clarinettist and band leader (1899-1972). »Mezz« worked with several of the great names from his period, among others: Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Bud Freeman, Chick Webb and Sidney Bechet. Bookseller Inventory # 11032389

Item Description: Random House, New York, 1946. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. Stated First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED and inscribed at the ffep. "Best Wishes - Milton Mezzrow". In blue cloth,white titles to front panel and spine are quite bright, compression to spine ends, spine is leaning, light wear to bottom edge, tanning to page edges, touch of wear to the extremities, else about very good, pages are clean and unmarked. Difficult dust jacket is good++, intact and unclipped, with original price of $3.00 at front flap, heavily rubbed at the flap and spine edges, light loss and creasing to extremities and spine ends, panels are still quite bright, with slight sunning to spine. A clarinetist of modest ability, hipster, dope dealer to the stars of jazz, spinner of tall tales, 'White Negro' - Mezz beyond all of this, in his colourful, hell raising memoir, was an eye witness to the evolution of a unique, indigenous art form and an impassioned advocate for the great black musicians who created it. Increasingly uncommon signed copy of one of the most colourful jazz memoirs. J1495. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 001495

Item Description: Random House (1946), New York, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. This copy is SIGNED by both authors on the front endpaper along with American Jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet as well as Velma Middleton, who served a long stint in Armstrong's band as vocalist, and Pops Foster, who is generally acknowledged as being the father of the jazz bass. On a rear blank are three signatures of French musicians including orchestra leader and specialist in the music of Bechet, Jacques Doudelle. An amazing collection of autographs including three of the most important figures in Jazz on one page. Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Bookseller Inventory # 013355